Random Encounters with Missingno: Chapter 48

Chapter 48- A Random Timeskip

Missingno sits along a rock wall. “Just to let the readers know, after everything returned to normal in the Pokemon Tower, we checked in on Mr. Fuji. He made us some breakfast with his secret kitchen, and let us sleep at his place again. Sometime around noon, we finally parted with him and made our way into Route 8.”

What is with the recap?

“The chapters have been a little too long recently, and the plan for future chapters means that we need to cut back a little on the travel coverage.”

Isn’t this being written a couple weeks before other chapters are posted? Can’t you just edit previous chapters to cut some things?

“Noooooooo! I like the way it is! I don’t want to change anything!”

You can’t have your cake and eat it too.

Missingno pulls out a cake. He takes a huge bite out of it, and it proceeds to grow back to its original shape. “Ha!”

Cassandra walks up. “I checked, but this guard to Saffron City won’t let us through either.”

Missingno throws the cake over his shoulder and shrugs. “That’s the plot.” He tucks Driller under his arm and heads north, towards the small shack.

Cassandra snatches her Pokemon back. “I don’t think so.”

“We have to go through the Underground Tunnel to get to Celadon City.”

“That is fine. You don’t need to drag my Pokemon through whatever craziness you have planned in that place.”

“Fine. No craziness. I’ll just take us there.”

Cassandra backs up. “If you want to fly there, you can do that yourself. I’ll catch up.”

Missingno scoffs. “I wouldn’t use that again. We just have to wait for him to get back.” He holds out his arms and steps toward them.

Cassandra takes a few steps back. “I said, don’t-”

As she steps back again, she bumps into another Missingno. This one wraps his arms around her and Driller.

“SUPER AWESOME TELEPORT POWERS, ACTIVATE!”

Missingno used Teleport.

The three of them spin as they shoot straight up. When they reach a height well above the Saffron City skyscrapers, they float to the city just past it. They then spin as they fall straight down to land right in front of the Pokecenter.

When Missingno lets go of them, they stumble around.

“Wha- what was that?” She grabs her head to try to stabilize her vision. “How was that a ‘teleport’?”

“That is a good question. The answer to that is- Hey, look! The theatre!” He points to a large building in the middle of the street. The sign above it displays the upcoming musical.

‘Random People Running and Screaming’.

“Didn’t you talk about that a couple of days ag-” She turns back to Missingno, who is now in a suit and top hat. He holds a cane as he puts a monocle in his eye.

He speaks in a fancy accent. “Hello, my good chap. Great weather we have here. Then again, Kanto never has any real weather anyways. Here, son.” He places a Nugget in a nearby man’s shirt pocket. “Buy yourself something nice.”

“Wait, is that my Nugget?”

He looks to the right. “... No…. Hello, my name is Missingno.”

Cassandra smacks away his outstretched hand. “I know who you are.”

Missingno fixes his suit. “Come, chaps. Onto the-”

The theatre’s doors burst open as a crowd of random people run out, screaming.

“Whoa, chaps. Save it for the pref-”

The theatre blows up.

“What in chaps is-”

A couple of Team Rocket Launcher grunts run from the scene.

“... Ya’ll gonna die!” Missingno runs south and into the Game Corner.

Cassandra stands back near the Pokecenter, confused on everything. She looks at Driller, but he just shrugs.

She makes her way into the gambling center, where several machines in the back have been ripped out. A hole in the wall reveals a stairway down. A nearby Team Rocket Launcher grunt stands at a poster nearby.

“I could have opened it if he asked…”

Cassandra heads down the stairs and into the hideout. Waiting for her is half a dozen Team Rocket Launcher members.

One smirks. “Where do you think you’re going?”

Another gives a hearty laugh. “Boss was right to place guards at the front entrance.”

Another pulls out some Pokeballs. “And to tell us to not let intruders pass by even if we don’t have eye contact.”

They each send out a full set of Raticates and Golbats.

Cassandra and Driller raise their hands.

The gang members lead the duo down the elevator, and into a large room. There are machines along the back, and a large desk in the middle.

“Uh, is your boss supposed to be here?” She turns around, but the members are gone. Instead, she sees Missingno briefly as he slips out of the room. She walks out of the room to see him head up an emergency staircase. She looks at the staircase, then at Driller, then back at the staircase.

Then she takes the elevator.

When she reaches the top level of the underground hideout, she sees Missingno again, rounding another corner. She walks quickly to catch up to him, but only catches a glimpse of him as he heads back up to the Game Corner. They keep doing this, as Cassandra and Driller follow him outside and around corners, until they see him slip into a hotel in the southeast corner of the city.

Cassandra opens the door to a hotel full of Team Rocket Launcher members. They turn to face them.

“Um… I’m gonna go.” She steps back into a couple of Rocket Launcher guards. “You guys aren’t going to fly me through the air and take me on a ridiculous journey, are you?”

“... No?”

She sighs. “Thank goodness.” She follows the guards into the hotel.

Missingno waves. “Hi Cassandra!”

“... Missingno. Why are you wearing a Team Rocket Launcher uniform?”

He shrugs. “Cause can. They're starting me out as a grunt, but if I prove myself, it won’t be long before I’m a full-fledged member!”

A Team Rocket Launcher member approaches him. “Boss will see you now.”

Missingno pushes past him as he kneels before a computer. “Boss, I have something for you.”

A Porygon shows up on the monitor and looks down at him. A mechanical voice comes from the speakers. “Thank you, new recruit.”